Unpopular Film Opinions

I like the prequels. Return of the jedi is my fav of the original trilogy. Last crusade is the best Indy film. Hateful eight is tarantinos best film. Grave of the fireflies is exploitative BS. I thought batman vs Superman was fun. Brave is the best Pixar film since Up. Pirates of the Caribbean dead man's chest was better than black pearl and a good action/adventure flick. JGL should have won the best actor Oscar for the walk. Batman beyond return of the joker is the best batman film. Inherent Vice sucked. Star trek(2009) was a really fun film. Kylo ren is a great villain. Grand Budapest hotel and Rushmore are in the bottom half of Wes Anderson movies.

Tim Burton's only bad movies as a director are Frankenweenie, Dark Shadows, and The Planet of the Apes remake. The ones that weren't bad (and were even good in ways) but that I have no desire to see again are Alice in Wonderland and Mars Attacks!. That's means I would at minimum watch again 12/17 from Pee-Wee on.

It's better track record than Johnny Depp, but both have lifetime passes from me.

People were way too hard on Hail, Caesar! It's a perfectly fine collection of great parts. And some of the things people apparently decided should be the whole movie after seeing the trailer were my least favorite parts.

Man from UNCLE was so much fun. The scene of Armie Hammer battling Italians in a high speed boat battle while Cavill calmly watched while drinking wine had me in stitches. It's a shame that it didn't do well enough to get a sequel is a shame because it was really great.

They already replaced the Yub-Nub song for the Special Edition, might as well go one step further and replace the forgettable replacement song with the closing title track from Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire).

Now I'm wondering how much effort it would be to recast that entire record as being about the story of Vader and the Galactic empire's decline and fall.

I’ve upvoted contradictory opinions about Nolan and Star Wars, which I guess shows I don’t have strong opinions about either. However, TDKR is stronger in my memory than TDK—I think it was a mess, more that kind of made it more interesting to me (and I liked the ensemble more than the simple Batman-vs.-Joker dynamic of TDK).

I really hated There Will Be Blood and the critical acclaim for Brokeback Mountain is mystifying to me (it's not that good of a film!). 

There, that felt better. 

In 2004, I attended a three-week youth writing workshop at UC Santa Cruz. During one class, we watched David Mamet's 1997 "classic" The Spanish Prisoner, and literally everyone in the class hated it.

I haven't seen it since, but the fact that a bunch of 12-14-year-olds, who will usually accept shitty movies on the assumption that they're the ones who don't "get it," all came to the conclusion that it was cheesy and contrived has to mean something.

Not just racism but cartoonishly over the top, unsubtle racism. I get where you're coming from with "true in 2005", but I think Crash was so after school special, it would still be safe in the current climate.

And why didn't he run into his past self?

When we got married, my wife hadn't seen Ghostbusters, so we watched it, and I realized over the course of two long, laugh-free hours that Ghostbusters isn't really very funny.

Return of the Jedi is awesome. And the psychological showdown with the Emperor is the second-best scene in the whole series (behind the climax of Empire). I was absolutely riveted (and kinda resented the cutaways to the actual battles). I mean, in general, Ian McDiarmid basically stole the movie, but in a great way. I would definitely rank the original trilogy 5, 6, 4.